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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
7/28/2021
It's Impossible to Separate Politics and the Olympics
by Michelle Sikes
The Supreme Council for Sport in Africa was a collaboration of 32 nations to pressure international sporting authorities to seek to bar the white supremacist regimes of South Africa and Rhodesia from major competition, most notably through a boycott of the 1976 Montreal games.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
7/23/2021
The IOC May Not Like it, but the Games have Always Been a Forum for Protest
by Harry Blutstein
"Baron Pierre de Coubertin, believed that Olympiads were a way to communicate “love for concord and a respect for life.” So it was not surprising that activist athletes saw the Olympics as a legitimate forum to promote those values whenever they saw them violated."
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SOURCE: Tropics of Meta
7/26/2021
The People’s Bicentennial Commission and the Spirit of (19)76
by Jason Tebbe
As the national bicentennial approached, a group of New Left activists formed the People's Bicentennial Commission and adopted the symbols of the nation's founding to challenge the domination of the rich.
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Amateurism, Sneaker Money, and the Forgotten Protest of the 1968 Games
by Harry Blutstein
Tommie Smith and John Carlos are remembered for their gloved-fist protest of American racism at the 1968 Mexico City Games. But they also demonstrated against the hypocritical and exploitative rules of amateurism and opened the door to endorsement payments for Olympians.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
7/17/2021
Black Lives Matter Misses the Point About Cuba
by Jorge Felipe Gonzalez
American activists who recognize the antiracist achievements of the revolutionary Cuban government miss the ways that that government's authoritarianism and more recent economic policies disproportionately harm Afro-Cuban people.
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SOURCE: Radio Open Source
7/15/2021
Daphne Brooks on Truth-Telling Music
African American Studies scholar Daphne Brooks tells the back stories of Black women in music and the cultural impact of their songs.
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SOURCE: In These Times
7/15/2021
Learn Lessons about Movement Building from Radical Black Women
by Keisha N. Blain, Premilla Nadasen and Robyn C. Spencer
Barbara Ransby facilitates a roundtable collaborative essay about the role of women in building radical movements for justice in Black communities encompassing social welfare, economic security, police accountability, women's liberation and more.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
7/22/2021
Cubans Took to the Streets in 1994, Too
by Rozzmery Palenzuela Vicente
Since the Clinton administration, decreased willingness by the US to accept Cuban migrants as political refugees has eliminated a significant safety valve against dissent on the island – encouraging Cuban dissidents to leave. This may make current protests more enduring and possibly more effective.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
7/19/2021
Gloria Richardson and Black Women’s Intellectual History
by Robert Greene II
Gloria Richardson became an unusual leader of the civil rights movement as an older woman activist, and her changing views on movement strategy are important to scholars today.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
7/12/2021
Black Power and Anti-Carceral State Infrastructure
by Joshua L. Crutchfield
Mutual aid groups that formed in response to the COVID pandemic echo the ways that participants in the Black Freedom movement sought to create alternative instititutions for the benefit of communities and individuals that did not reinforce the power of the police.
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7/4/2021
The National Bicentennial Erased Antiwar Activism by Vietnam Veterans
by Elise Lemire
The United States Semiquincentennial Commission is preparing for July 4, 2026 as an opportunity for educating the public about the nation's history. It should avoid repeating the whitewash of recent history in the 1976 Bicentennial celebration.
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7/4/2021
Thich Quang Duc and the Power of Political Self-Sacrifice
by David Richards
Thich Quang Duc's decision to self-immolate in protest of the repressive government of Ngo Dinh Diem accelerated the fateful fall of that regime and offers an example of the power of self-sacrifice in protest.
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SOURCE: Knightlab
6/29/2021
Fists of Freedom: A Storymap of Responses to the Olympics Protest of John Carlos and Tommie Smith
by Lou Moore
Louis Moore presents an interactiv graphic exploration of media responses to the 1968 Mexico City Olympics protest of American sprinters John Carlos and Tommie Smith.
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SOURCE: NPR
6/12/2021
The Complicated History Behind BLM's Solidarity With The Pro-Palestinian Movement
"We need to understand that Black identification with Zionism predates the formation of Israel as a modern state," says Robin D. G. Kelley, a historian at the University of California, Los Angeles who studies social movements.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
6/9/2021
Protesters Marching in Elizabeth City, N.C., over Andrew Brown’s Killing are Walking in the Footsteps of Centuries of Fighters for Black Rights
by Melissa N. Stuckey
A historian living and working at the site of Andrew Brown Jr.'s killing by police explains that local protesters are following generations of freedom seekers.
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SOURCE: Mother Jones
6/10/2021
How the George Floyd Uprising Was Framed for White Eyes
Some of the most iconic news photographs of the Civil Rights Movement told a particular story to white liberals – that Black protesters were passive victims needing their help, instead of actively fighting for freedom. Those photos today help define the mainstream limits of "acceptable" protest.
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/21/2021
Will We Ever Get Beyond "The Fire Next Time"?
by Elizabeth Hinton
"What we witnessed in 2020 was the latest manifestation of an ongoing crisis that could have been solved if elected officials had properly understood the root causes the first time around."
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SOURCE: The Guardian
5/25/2021
We are Told America is Living Through a ‘Racial Reckoning’. Is it Really?
by Simon Balto
Policing historian Simon Balto argues that White America today seems most intersted in defending a personal sense of innocence over racism rather than working for justice. The new culture war over "critical race theory" is evidence.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/25/2021
George Floyd Changed The World of Athlete Activism
by Carl Suddler
The protests over George Floyd's murder involved Black athletes at a time when athletes are highly visible and broke with a decades-long tendency to steer clear of controversy.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
5/24/2021
Black Politics After George Floyd
Protests over the killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans by police have exposed a rift in Black politics, with an establishment group seeking to control the moral authority of the Civil Rights movement by stripping it of its historical commitment to disruption.